Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-14 Thread Owen
Thanks Rick, Intel NUC series NUC7I5BNK Gen7 Core i5 - so Kaby Lake i5-7260U processor BIOS updated on 3 Feb., just prior to installing ASCII with: BIOS Update [BNKBL357.86A] dated: 1/14/2020 A reboot leaves the syslog and kern.log files at about 9kb with only one ACPI error in each. Good

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Owen (o...@gonwanda.net): > So the answer is that both /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log are > both 18GB large - see details below. tl;dr: A hardware-based bug is making the ACPI handler stumble and respawn, quickly, over and over and over and Perhaps you should consider

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-14 Thread Owen
Thanks to all who replied and especially to "Pontus Goffe via Dng" One of the many things I didn't know of was "ncdu" (so I installed it via Synaptic"). Apologies for the simplistic ap[proach to writing this back, it's so other newbies like me might understand what to do and how :-) So the

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-13 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
13/02/2020 19:33:27 +1100 Ralph Ronnquist : > Traversing / directly like that is not a good idea. Rather do: > > # mount -obind / /mnt > # du -sh /mnt/* > > so that you traverse the root file system without traversing all special > mounts (/proc, /sys etc) > > Thenn you'll do > # umount /mnt

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 02:26:23 + Owen wrote: > Hi, > > looking to get away from systemd, I'm moving from Ubuntu to Devuan > (ascii). > > The system was installed 10 days ago, all went well and updates and > additional pgograms installed well unyil today . . . > > The / partition was set as

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-13 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
Traversing / directly like that is not a good idea. Rather do: # mount -obind / /mnt # du -sh /mnt/* so that you traverse the root file system without traversing all special mounts (/proc, /sys etc) Thenn you'll do # umount /mnt to release the bind mount Ralph. Pontus Goffe via Dng wrote on

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-12 Thread Joril via Dng
On 13/02/20 03:26, Owen wrote: Any ideas how I can reclaim 30gb of my disk space please? You could try looking for huge directories with ncdu ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-12 Thread Pontus Goffe via Dng
You fail to mention what was included in 'additional programs' but to give you a hint I have a pretty much vanilla but up-to-date Ascii here with just LXDE and root partition uses 7.1G. May I suggest you traverse into / and look for usage? cd /; du -sh *; //PG On 2020-02-13 03:26, Owen wrote: